Android 5.0.1

[ptkelly]

I hated Apple's gallery app especially their new deleted folder.. When I delete something I make sure I want to get rid of it before I delete it so why should I have to delete again..

The Apple is designed for Apple users.

 

[Soylent_Green]

I heard nexus 5 is not getting 5.0.1 or any other future OS updates. Is this true? How do we fix all the issues with our phones now?

You heard wrong...

 

[cybernutte]

Well, to be clear, when I updated my Nexus 7 (2013) from 4.4.4 to 5.0.1, it automatically migrated ALL of my email accounts to Gmail (a pop account, a hotmail account, and a work Exchange account, none of which had been in the Gmail account before the update). There was no "option" about it. . . .

What did you use to read your 3 non-Gmail accounts before Gmail hijacked them? Did you use the stock Email client that came with the Nexus 7 (2013)? I ask because I too have a Nexus 7 (2013), and I definitely do NOT want any email accounts in my Gmail client except for my two Gmail accounts. When I first got the tablet, I used the stock Email client for two non-Gmail accounts, but I then switched over to AquaMail Pro, which I like a lot better. However, I found no way to remove the email accounts from the stock Email client. All I could do was disable it. I hope that's enough to prevent Gmail from hijacking the email accounts.

It looks as if I may have a little longer to worry about this before it actually can occur. The notification that 5.0.1 is ready to be installed suddenly disappeared earlier today. I'm hoping Google has pulled it because it still is causing problems for a good number of people. But I imagine that the Gmail hijacking will still be part of the next update. Damn, I can remember when I was so happy to have a Gmail account.

 

[Mandy Mannix]

Can we expect Android 5.0.1 around December for the Nexus product line and all the other devices that had lollipop also?
I think it's important to sort out the bugs a bit like iOS 7.0.1 and 8.0.1. Or even KitKat 4.4.1 to 4.4.4.

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[brentj]

What did you use to read your 3 non-Gmail accounts before Gmail hijacked them? Did you use the stock Email client that came with the Nexus 7 (2013)?

Yes.

 

[daihard2008]

Well, to be clear, when I updated my Nexus 7 (2013) from 4.4.4 to 5.0.1, it automatically migrated ALL of my email accounts to Gmail (a pop account, a hotmail account, and a work Exchange account, none of which had been in the Gmail account before the update). There was no "option" about it. I'm not sure there is any way to get them out of Gmail, other than completely deleting those accounts and then adding them back into some other email app. If there is, Gmail doesn't make it easy to find it. I downgraded back to 4.4.4, in large part because it ticked me off that Gmail hijacked all of my email accounts in this fashion.

The same thing happened when I authorized the Gmail app update on my Note 4 phone (running 4.4.4). Gmail updated and hijacked all of my email accounts into the Gmail app. I was able to uninstall the updates, and now I simply reject any requests to authorize updates to Gmail.

In that case, Google probably had no choice but to migrate your existing non-Gmail accounts to Gmail, because Gmail was now the only native mail client that came with Android.

 

[brentj]

In that case, Google probably had no choice but to migrate your existing non-Gmail accounts to Gmail, because Gmail was now the only native mail client that came with Android.

I'm not sure if that is correct on the Note 4, but regardless, Google had a choice when they revamped Gmail and decided to kill the other native "Email" app at the same time. They chose to deprive users of choice.

 

[daihard2008]

I'm not sure if that is correct on the Note 4, but regardless, Google had a choice when they revamped Gmail and decided to kill the other native "Email" app at the same time. They chose to deprive users of choice.

Yes, I agree. That's the other choice they could have made (but decided not to). I'm personally fine with having only Gmail as the native mail client, because honestly, I don't see any noticeable difference between the old Mail interface and the Gmail interface for non-Gmail accounts. That being the case, the fewer apps to manage, the better for me. But apparently, tastes differ.

 

[zorak950]

The Gmail app doesn't migrate anything technically, it just does POP/IMAP like the old email app did, only in a different interface. You're not really deprived of choice: you can still use any email app on the Play Store for the same purpose.

 

[daihard2008]

Looks like the 5.0.1 factory image for the Nexus 4 has been published, as well as for the LTE Nexus 9.

 

[smoledman]

Google pulled the 5.0.1 update I had sitting on my Nexus 7, WTF!!!

 

[daihard2008]

Google pulled the 5.0.1 update I had sitting on my Nexus 7, WTF!!!

And you never got round to installing it while it was sitting on your device?

You can flash a factory image instead if you wish to try 5.0.1 now.

 

[benhaube]

I heard nexus 5 is not getting 5.0.1 or any other future OS updates. Is this true? How do we fix all the issues with our phones now?

This is not true. The nexus 5 will be getting OS updates for at least another year.

 

[daihard2008]

This is not true. The nexus 5 will be getting OS updates for at least another year.

... especially now that the Nexus 4 has just gotten the 5.0.1 update.

 

[thegooner74]

Any idea when we can expect the Lollipop update on the Moto G 2nd Gen here in the UK?

Thanks

 

[smoledman]

And you never got round to installing it while it was sitting on your device?

You can flash a factory image instead if you wish to try 5.0.1 now.

Blaming the victim? Google has no business removing my locally downloaded update.

 

[Knudroid]

Check your download folder, maybe it's there

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[Alniter]

I'd love KitKat back. All Lollipop has brought me is stuttering apps and games, sudden black screens that completely close the app or browser mid-use, and stupid extra steps in mail and even unlocking my Nexus 7. Is it really a new operating system, or a hack from Apple to punish non-iPad users? Unless I'm out of the house, I don't even use my tablet now because I'm tired of it suddenly stopping.

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[Alniter]

Google pulled the 5.0.1 update I had sitting on my Nexus 7, WTF!!!

Consider yourself lucky. Maybe they've actually realized that Lollipop makes using a Nexus 7 a bad fever dream.

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[Hungerdunger]

Any idea when we can expect the Lollipop update on the Moto G 2nd Gen here in the UK?

Assuming it will be similar to the Moto X 2nd Gen, then the answer is: no-one knows and Motorola aren't telling. See our discussion here:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/moto-x-2014/470185-lollipop-uk.html